This... force...
His eyeball slowly turned left, the corner of his eye slightly squeezed inward by the force of the enemy's instep against his left cheek. Amid the rapidly intensifying sizzling, even the blue Chakra cloak covering his cheek was kicked inward by the immense force.
This brat had been waiting for this moment?
At that moment, his shifting gaze slowly passed over the youth below him, whose entire body had twisted around to face him—the elbow strike crackling with electricity at his waist and ribs, the black Leopard Head biting out beneath him, those eyes blazing with sharp light and burning with emerald-green flames, and the faintly upturned corner of his mouth beneath them.
At that instant, the Third Raikage unconsciously clenched his teeth—not because of the immense force of the kick to his left cheek, but because of the shock and fury rising from the depths of his heart!
"Bang!"
At the very instant the Third Raikage clenched his teeth, the muffled sound of flesh bursting under force finally erupted.
"Whoosh!"
The next second, the Third Raikage vanished abruptly as the blue Chakra cloak on his left cheek caved inward. He was kicked flying sideways to his right, streaking through the air in a bolt of blue lightning!
In that same instant, the lightning-charged elbow strike and black Leopard Head became a trail of black lightning and a bright blue-white streak, flung away alongside him. At the critical moment, they were kicked away from Chiba's waist and lower ribs! "Tap!"
The next second, Chiba twisted and flipped through the air, landing at an angle. His right foot stepped onto the ground beside Hirohiko, and with a puff upon landing, a ring of slightly sandy soil rolled outward, spreading into a circle of dust.
"Cough!"
As he landed, Chiba